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Navigating to an embedded resource in .NET

This task is very common but since i did not find a clear and simple solution i decided to write it. I have a simple C# application which has a webbrowser control and i want to use the res:// protocol to navigate to an embedded resource, a html file from the assembly, like this: webbrowser.Navigate("res://myApp.exe/Help.htm"); since managed resources are not native ones, adding an html file to the project and select "embedded resource" wont help. if you open the assembly with a resource editor you won;t see the html resource. hence, the res:// protocol wont work. so i wrote this simple console application which accepts as parameters the resource file you want to add. Usage: AddResourceManaged.exe ExePath ResFile ResName [ResType] adds a new resource to an exe file ExePath - path of the exe ResFile - path of the file to be added as a resource ResName - name of the resource ResType - (optional) type of the resource; if omitted, the application will try to use o...